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General availability: Azure Cognitive Search implements debug sessions
Streamline your Cognitive Search operations with debug sessions for building, testing, and modifying skillsets.
January 2022
Public preview: Semantic Search update
Semantic Search, a feature of Azure Cognitive Search, is now available for direct configuration in the Azure Portal.
November 2021
Azure Applied AI Services | Azure Cognitive Search updates now generally available
Azure Cognitive Search has expanded language and regional availability.
August 2021
Select Azure Cognitive Search skills will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Upgrade your skills to version 3 of Azure Cognitive Search sentiment analysis and entity recognition skills.
September 2020
Azure Cognitive Search - Managed identity support and Private Endpoints are GA
You can now request Azure Cognitive Search to create an outbound private endpoint connection in order to securely access data from such data sources via indexers . You can also create identity for a search service in Azure Active Directory, then use RBAC permissions to grant the identity permissions to Azure data sources.
May 2020
Azure Private Link is now available for multiple new Azure services
Azure Private Link now supports multiple new Azure services in general availability and preview.
Azure Private Link is now generally available in US Government regions
Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in GA.
March 2020
Announcing Azure Private Link GA for Azure Services
Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in Preview and GA.
February 2020
Cognitive Services Bing Speech API is being retired November 1, 2021
Target retirement date: November 01, 2021
To continue providing speech recognition and translation capabilities in your current Bing Speech applications, you’ll need to migrate them to Speech Services and the Speech SDK
December 2019
Azure Search meter names will change on February 1, 2020
Effective February 1, 2020, the meter names of Azure Search will change.
July 2019
Azure Search is now integrated with the Azure Government cloud
Azure Search is now integrated with the Azure Government cloud, enabling U.S. public sector customers to create sophisticated search solutions.
May 2019
Azure Search Document Cracking Image Extraction Resource GUID name change
Effective July 1, 2019, the Azure Search Document Cracking Image Extraction Resource GUID name will change.
Azure Search Basic Unit and Standard Unit Resource GUID change
Effective July 1, 2019, the resource GUIDs for Azure Search Basic Unit and Standard S1, S2 and S3 Unit for the Japan East region will change.
Azure Search now supports complex search types
Azure Search now supports complex searches for raw datasets that don’t break down neatly.
The Cognitive Search feature of Azure Search is now available
Cognitive Search is an enrichment pipeline that transforms raw, unstructured content into rich searchable information in an Azure Search index.
New knowledge mining capabilities in Azure Search
Cognitive search capability, the content-understanding feature within Azure Search, now offers a single mechanism to apply a series of pre-built and custom AI models to data. In addition, a new knowledge store capability in cognitive search enables developers to further leverage the insights and metadata they extracted from the cognitive search pipeline. <br> <a href="https://aka.ms/Build2019_AI-ML" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog</a>
April 2019
Azure Search—New storage optimized service tiers are now in preview
The new L-series tiers offer significantly more storage at a reduced cost per terabyte compared to the standard tiers. This is ideal for internal applications searching over large file repositories, archival scenarios when you have business data going back many years, or e-discovery applications.
February 2019
Blob output partitioning in Azure Stream Analytics
Azure Stream Analytics users can now partition output to Azure Blob storage based on custom date and time formats.
December 2018
Connect Cognitive Services subscription to enable unlimited skillset execution
Starting December 21, 2018, you’ll be able to associate your Cognitive Services subscription with an Azure Search skillset. The skillset execution will be charged as part of the Cognitive Services subscription. On December 21, 2018, we’ll also begin charging for image extraction as part of our document-cracking stage. Text extraction from documents will continue to be offered at no additional cost.
May 2017
Synonyms for Azure Search
Support for synonyms in Azure Search, soon to be in preview, is one of our most requested features on UserVoice. Synonyms functionality will allows for Azure Search to not only return results that match the query terms that were typed into the search box, but also return results that match synonyms of the query terms.
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